| Descript |
xi, 302 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-302) |
| Contents |
Part one: Sleep of reason breeds monsters: Canaries in the coal mine ; The American dream is dead ; Nine dead in Charleston ; The ego is not master in its own house ; They're tryin' to win this thing ; Life outside the cloud ; The end of an uneasy truce ; The joke is over -- Part two: The summer of rage: An American horror story ; The road to Ohio ; There will be blood ; A nation forever on the brink ; When the devil's at your door: the Republican National Convention ; The people are going to rise like the waters upon your shore: the Democratic National Convention ; Against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; The Green Party National Convention -- Part three: A new kind of religion: A voice for the people ; A tiger by its tail ; The cult of the movement ; We come to the end ; Anatomy of a car crash ; Waiting for the end of the world -- Epilogue: We the people |
| Summary |
A firsthand account of the 2016 presidential election and the cultural forces that divided both parties and powered Donald Trump into the White House, through in-the-field reports and deep analyses, is both the story of the most unexpected election in modern political history and a sobering chronicle of the U.S. democracy’s political polarization |
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Trump, Donald, 1946-
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Clinton, Hillary Rodham
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
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Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
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Conservatism -- United States
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
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| ISBN |
9781619029569 |
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1619029561 |
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